Curtain Call: The Hits Explained

Curtain Call: The Hits
Type:greatest
Artist:Eminem
Cover:Curtain Call cover.jpg
Recorded:1997–2005
Released:December 6, 2005
Length:77:55
Prev Title:Encore
Prev Year:2004
Next Title:Relapse
Next Year:2009

Curtain Call: The Hits is the first greatest hits album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on December 6, 2005, under Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records. The album collects Eminem's most popular singles, as well as three new songs: "Fack", "When I'm Gone", and "Shake That" featuring Nate Dogg. A live version of "Stan" performed with English singer-songwriter Elton John at the 43rd Grammy Awards is also included as a bonus track.

The album was certified Diamond in the United States on March 8, 2022,[1] and quintuple platinum in New Zealand. It reached number one on several charts, including the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart.

On July 11, 2022, Eminem announced a sequel to the album titled Curtain Call 2, which would contain material from his later work. It was released on August 5, 2022.[2]

Chart performance

Curtain Call: The Hits debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and Billboard 200, after two sales days, in a similar fashion to Eminem's previous album Encore. The album racked up first-week sales of nearly 441,000 and with close to 324,000 scans the second week for a two-week stay at number one. It slipped from number one to number four in its third week but surged 33 percent to finish with sales close to 430,000. The disc scored nearly 1.2 million scans in its first three weeks of release. It also gave Eminem his fifth straight number 1 album in the US and UK including the 8 Mile soundtrack., the record had sold 3,782,000 copies in the United States.[3] Curtain Call was later certified Diamond by the RIAA in the United States.

The album's two singles, "When I'm Gone" and "Shake That", peaked at numbers 8 and 6 respectively in the US Billboard Hot 100. Only "When I'm Gone" qualified for the charts in the UK, where it peaked at number 4.

In August 2017, the album was declared the longest-charting rap LP in the history of the Billboard 200.[4]

Clean version

A clean version of the album is also available. It has 15 tracks with both "Intro" and "Fack" removed (due to the extreme sexual nature of the latter, and the former's connection to the song) and "My Name Is" put to track one. The tracks appear exactly how they appeared on the clean versions of their respective albums except for the song "Guilty Conscience", which uses the radio edit. Certain profanities remain on several tracks, as words including "shit", "bitch", and "ass" were not censored on The Slim Shady LP or The Marshall Mathers LP. However, on "Just Lose It", the clean version leaves "ass" uncensored, unlike on Encore, the word "ass" was replaced with "thing".

Track listing

Notes

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2005–2006)!scope="col"
Peak
position
Australian Hip-Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[5] 1
Greek Albums (IFPI)1
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6] 3
Taiwanese Albums (Five Music)[7] 1
2013 weekly chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits!Chart (2013)!Peak
position
2017 weekly chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits!Chart (2017)!Peak
position

Year-end charts

Chart (2005)!scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[8] 66
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[9] 12
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[10] 21
Irish Albums (IRMA)[11] 7
Italian Albums (FIMI)[12] 78
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[13] 7
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[14] 80
UK Albums (OCC)[15] 9
Worldwide Albums (IFPI)[16] 8
2006 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2006)! Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[17] 24
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[18] 2
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[19] 34
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[20] 73
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[21] 41
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[22] 69
European Hot 100 Albums (Billboard)[23] 15
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[24] 31
Greek Foreign Albums (IFPI)[25] 38
Italian Albums (FIMI)[26] 65
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[27] 32
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[28] 16
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[29] 84
Swedish Albums & Compilations (Sverigetopplistan)[30] 100
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[31] 23
UK Albums (OCC)[32] 89
US Billboard 200[33] 6
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[34] 9
2007 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2007)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[35] 32
2009 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2009)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[36] 35
2010 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2010)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[37] 23
UK Albums (OCC)[38] 136
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[39] 35
2011 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2011)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[40] 19
UK Albums (OCC)[41] 119
US Billboard 200[42] 145
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[43] 9
2012 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2012)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[44] 17
UK Albums (OCC)[45] 158
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[46] 23
2013 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2013)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[47] 8
UK Albums (OCC)[48] 105
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[49] 22
2014 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2014)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[50] 1
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[51] 99
2015 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2015)! Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[52] 20
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[53] 46
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[54] 62
UK Albums (OCC)[55] 88
US Billboard 200[56] 107
2016 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits! Chart (2016)! Position
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[57] 43
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[58] 35
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[59] 54
UK Albums (OCC)[60] 64
US Billboard 200[61] 110
Chart (2017)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[62] 23
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[63] 48
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[64] 16
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[65] 25
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[66] 58
UK Albums (OCC)[67] 34
US Billboard 200[68] 76
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[69] 7
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[70] 46
Chart (2018)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[71] 25
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[72] 26
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[73] 22
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[74] 33
Irish Albums (IRMA)[75] 25
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[76] 78
UK Albums (OCC)[77] 29
US Billboard 200[78] 59
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[79] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[80] 34
Chart (2019)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[81] 24
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[82] 7
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[83] 27
Irish Albums (IRMA)[84] 34
UK Albums (OCC)[85] 31
US Billboard 200[86] 66
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[87] 5
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[88] 34
Chart (2020)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[89] 41
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[90] 8
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[91] 46
Irish Albums (IRMA)[92] 25
UK Albums (OCC)[93] 28
US Billboard 200[94] 170
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[95] 90
Chart (2021)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[96] 25
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[97] 31
Irish Albums (IRMA)[98] 20
UK Albums (OCC)[99] 19
US Billboard 200[100] 48
US Catalog Albums (Billboard)[101] 4
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[102] 22
Chart (2022)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[103] 9
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[104] 20
UK Albums (OCC)[105] 6
US Billboard 200[106] 45
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[107] 22
Chart (2023)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[108] 19
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[109] 17
UK Albums (OCC)[110] 7
US Billboard 200[111] 36
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[112] 15

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–2009)! scope="col"
Position
UK Albums (OCC)[113] 89
US Billboard 200[114] 161
Chart (2010–2019)! scope="col"
Position
UK Albums (OCC)[115] 51

See also

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